Behind the back matter: the liminalities of the Faerie Queene (1590).(Critical essay) From: Studies in the Literary Imagination | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: Levy, Fritz | COPYRIGHT 2005 Georgia State University Department of English. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

And it desir'd at timely houres to heare

--Spenser, Colin Clouts Come Home Again, 362

Most discussion of the varied material surrounding they text of The Faerie Queene has focused on the peculiarities of Spenser's Dedicatory Sonnets. (1) Some issues of the text contain ten sonnets; others contain twenty-five, though some of these represent duplicates. Whether this confusion was the result of an attempt by Spenser to correct the potentially serious misjudgment ...

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